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Sampler
Mary Dowrick (American, born in 1733)
American
1747
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Linen plain weave embroidered with silk
Dimensions
Overall: 43.2 x 21 cm (17 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Bauer
Accession Number2005.214
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionAlphabet sampler embroidered with sawtooth, cross, counted satin, eyelet, stem, and buttonhole stitches with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden at the botton. Inscribed: "Mary Dowrick ended this sampler in the fourteenth year of her age 1747"
ProvenancePurchased from Mary and John Schmidt, November 9, 1991; Gift to the MFA, April 27, 2005